Chapter Seventy-Five: Wind Tunnel Testing
After introducing all the people present, everyone began to move the plasma engine to the test bench, then fixed the engine, and then debugged all kinds of test instruments, and after all the preparations were completed, the wind tunnel test began. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
With the crown prince's order: "Begin!" ”
With the power switch being turned on. As the sound of the engine gradually sounded, everyone present turned their eyes to the huge display screen standing on the side.
All the people present except for Zhu Lei and the crown prince are half a bucket of water, the rest of the people are all the elites of the aviation industry of the Ming Empire now, even if it is Zhu Lei and the crown prince, they can be regarded as having a deeper understanding of this aspect in the same age, so of course the data on the screen can be understood.
After all, the power required by the plasma thruster during the working period is too huge, and it is not that the general power transmission equipment is simply unbearable, and this plasma thruster uses direct current, and the general high-voltage transmission circuit of millions of volts is alternating current, and the substation equipment is needed to turn the alternating current into direct current.
But because the instantaneous power of this plasma thruster is too large, so the general transformer equipment is not good at all, and professional substation equipment must be used, but now the world Ju Zhulei knows that there is no substation equipment that can provide such a large energy instantly, you must know that the hourly power of this plasma thruster has reached hundreds of thousands of kilowatts per hour, if it is the maximum output power, then the power consumption of this ion thruster is at least nearly one million kilowatts of electricity per hour, Don't talk about Daming, even if there is no such substation equipment in the whole world at present, even Zhu Lei's own factory does not have such substation equipment.
Even if it is Zhu Lei, they charge the substation equipment for the gold essence battery, although the substation equipment charged for the gold essence battery is enough in terms of voltage, but there is still a huge gap in the current, you must know that it often takes nearly a week to charge a substation equipment for a gold essence battery to fully charge, but the electricity flushed in a week can only provide half an hour of energy on the plasma thruster.
With the increase of power output, the speed of the ion thruster is getting faster and faster, and the corresponding reaction force is getting stronger and stronger, so the data on the screen is updated faster and faster. And the people present, except for Zhu Lei, Zhang Lao, and Li Lao, all the other people's mouths are getting bigger and bigger, it's not that Zhu Lei can't understand the data on the display screen, but they have already experienced it, and this engine is designed and manufactured by them, so this is natural.
When the electrical output is at its maximum, the output power of the plasma thruster is also at its maximum. At this time, the tail flame of the plasma thruster has turned from blue to a faint green, Zhu Lei knows that this is due to the collision of high-speed plasma spewed out by the plasma thruster and the oxygen and other molecules in the air, which is still in the daytime, if it is at night, then these green tail flames will reach a length of several kilometers, and it is very beautiful.
The ion propeller is different from the general traditional thruster, as long as the power output is stable, then the output power of the thruster is also very stable, will not have a very large data change like the traditional engine, and the temperature of the tail flame is not as high as the temperature of the tail flame of the traditional engine, and there is no toxic and harmful gas generated, the output power of the plasma engine is very stable even when it is the maximum. Only the last digit at the bottom of the data sometimes fluctuates a little, but this has no effect on the overall data at all.
The time of this test was about the same as Zhu Lei's first test in the fiefdom, and it was also about half an hour, because in about half an hour, the power of a gold essence battery would be exhausted, so the test would naturally stop.
The data of the supersonic wind tunnel test here this time is very good, it can be said that it is very perfect, and even a little beyond Zhu Lei's own expectations, and it is much better than the data tested in his own fiefdom last time.
The weight of this ion thruster is 1,252 kilograms, and the maximum thrust generated during operation is more than 76,000 kilograms, that is, more than 76 tons of tons, and the average output power does not change much, after all, this is not a traditional thruster, and the output power is not as large as the fluctuation of the traditional thruster, and the maximum thrust is only less than 200 kilograms, which is far from being possible by the traditional engine.
And this plasma does not need to prepare a huge amount of fuel, this thruster plus the battery is only a little weight, so to speak, just such a small engine can directly send an object weighing 76 tons from the ground directly into space, which shows how great the thrust of this plasma thruster is.
You must know that this engine is still a small ion thruster produced by Zhu Lei's factory, which is used to equip relatively light aviation equipment. It sounds like the plasma thruster weighs more than 1.2 tons, but if you know the size of the engine, no one thinks it's big.
This thruster weighs 1,252 kilograms, has a maximum diameter of 263 millimeters, a nozzle diameter of 120 millimeters, and an overall length of 1,300 millimeters of engines. So this thruster looks very small, but because this thruster uses a lot of these special materials in Zhu Lei's factory, and there are a lot of fucking materials, plus the insulating metal materials used for insulation, it will have such a heavy weight, but these materials are indispensable, otherwise it will reduce the overall performance of the thruster.
However, the thrust generated by such a small plasma thruster is more than 76 tons, which is an astonishing statistic!
When the power of the battery was exhausted and the thruster slowly stopped, all of them stood there in a daze except for Zhu Lei, staring at the LCD screen with their eyes fixed, and many of them even opened their mouths. It can be said that everyone was frightened by the god-like data of this plasma thruster.
You know, it's a plasma thruster! It's really because these people present know that this is a plasma thruster, so they will show such an expression, if this thruster is a traditional explosive chemical thruster, even if the thrust reaches more than sixty, they will not have such an expression.